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не хочешь по-хорошему, будет по-плохомуthat's the end of the nice guy (из книги Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: When I think of formal scientific method an image sometimes comes to mind of an enormous juggernaut, a huge bulldozer-slow, tedious, lumbering, laborious, but invincible. It takes twice as long, five times as long, maybe a dozen times as long as informal mechanic's techniques, but you know in the end you're going to get it. There's no fault isolation problem in motorcycle maintenance that can stand up to it. When you've hit a really tough one, tried everything, racked your brain and nothing works, and you know that this time Nature has really decided to be difficult, you say, "Okay, Nature, that's the end of the nice guy," and you crank up the formal scientific method. 4uzhoj)
он было вовсе не хотел приезжатьhe was on the point of not coming at all
я хотел бы быть таким же лёгким человеком, как он: ни проблем, ни стрессов.I wish I were sort of downbeat like he is: no trouble, no stress. (Heavenlypraline6)